Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 23:39:22 +0200 From: Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Subject: Re: Q: state of the X (as related to fbsd). Message-ID: <200407022339.23181.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0407021122180.32731-100000@pancho> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0407021122180.32731-100000@pancho>
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Allow me to abuse this thread for the following: The state of things as I see it now is somewhat like this: X.Org ports need some kind of switch to make dependancies list for them and for other ports that depend on X11 ports correct. Part of this can be solved with changes to bsd.port.mk (I posted proposal earlier), part of it however needs changes to ports thjat explicitly depend on some of X11 ports. This will make xorg-clients port build properly on bento and save it from being marked BROKEN. XFree 4.4 ports, for which patches lie in PR database, are at the moment not commitable for two reasons. One is that XFree86-4-clients will not build on FreeBSD 4.x, more about this here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2004-June/000474.html http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1422 and anholt's commit that fixed this for xorg-clients here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1656015+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2004/cvs-all/20040620.cvs-all Another problem is that graphics/dri port relies on patches in x11/XFree86-4-libraries so as soon as XFree86-4-libraries are updated, dri will broke. I have updated dri port to XFree 4.4 version here: http://www.ijs.si/software/stuff/freebsd/xfree/ports-patches/dri.diff however, as I understood anholt, he already has plans to update dri port shortly, so XFree86 4.4 can wait untill after that. There is of course a possibility to bring XFree86 4.4 ports in tree as *-devel ports, see how they build under bento, ask people to test them and then the upgrade of real ports should be smoother. The -devel ports can then be used to have development snapshots of XFree86 so the next upgrade doesn't take as much time and bumps as this one. So this would be the state of X as related to FreeBSD as I see it. Dejan P.S. Roughly collected patches on: http://www.ijs.si/software/stuff/freebsd/xfree/index.html
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